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No. 329,854. Patented Nov. 3,, 1885.

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JAMES s. PIPER, OF GARDNER, MASsAoHUsETTs, ASSIGNOR TO HEYWOOD BROS. & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLATFORM-ROCKER.

.JPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,854, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed May 5, 1885. Serial No. 164,486. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES S. PIPER, of Gardner, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Platform-Rocker, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of rockers in which the chair rocks on a platform or ase.

Theinvention consists in the combination, with a bent-wood rocker, of a platform or base for supporting the same; and it also consists in a base or platform made of bent wood.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which a side view of my improved platformrocker is shown.

The seat A, back B, and arm-rests O are formed of bent wood. The back-rest bars are extended down below the seat,and have their lower ends Secured on a curved runner, D,

which has its front bent up to the under side of the seat, then extends along the under side of the seat, is bent down to the runner at the rear end of the seat, and has its end E tapered and united with and secured to the top edge The bent part of the runner of the runner.

thus serves as a support for the rear frame. The runners D rest on a support,base,or plat- 3o form,F, made ofbent Wood. Springs G(shown in dotted lines) are secured to the runners and base in the usual manner. By thus forming the runner D in one bent piece the expense of rounds and mortises therefor is dispensed 3 5 with, and at the same time a more durable runner is formed. The same is true in regard to the platform F, the ends of which are bent to form feet. It is customary to make the feet separate and insert their upper ends in mor- 4o tises in the platform; but my construction will be found stronger, as the parts cannot become separated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 5 Patent, is

The combination, with the seat A and back B, of the runners D, having their front parts bent up against the seat, downward at the rear part of the seat, and the ends E secured to 50 the runner, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES S. PIPER. Witnesses:

JULIAN P. DUNN, THATOHER B. DUNN. 

